Mr Gargett, The Hat King had a flourishing business at 137 Stockton High Street for over fifty years between 1900 – 1955.
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
Mr Gargett, The Hat King had a flourishing business at 137 Stockton High Street for over fifty years between 1900 – 1955.
Oh yes Malcolm – I remember you well! It was 1951 when my mother took me to get my uniform. She probably had to sell the family silver!
The shop itself was between Coates & Sedgewicks and the Midland Bank, we did sell uniforms for Richard Hind, the Grange. and Oxbridge Lane schools. I may have even served you with yours, Irene, if you bought it in the 50s (the good looking lad with jet black hair!)
Was Gargetts shop in a little sort of arcade under Coates and Sedgwicks? I think we got our school uniforms from there(Richard Hind)
It was such a surprise to see this photograph of Gargetts it must show Mr Gargett snr and Harold his son with Bill Brumpton the future manager whom i worked with in the 1950s until it was bought out by Littlewoods.